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Author Copyright Retention
Authors retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights for their work published in Ebn al-Muqaffaʿ in Narrative and Poetry. This contrasts with models that require authors to transfer full copyright to the publisher.
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All content is published under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en). The Creative Commons Attribution license permits the public to share and adapt the work, provided appropriate credit is given to the original authors and the journal.
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Attribution and Credit: Proper acknowledgment of all third-party material must be included in the article. If the article is published open access, and it contains material for which the authors do not have Open Access re-use permissions, this must be stated clearly using a specific credit line detailing the original publication and noting that the content is not covered by the terms of the Creative Commons license of the article. If the third-party material is published under a CC license (like CC BY-NC 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en)), Ebn al-Muqaffaʿ in Narrative and Poetry, as a scholarly publisher, generally requires explicit permission or negotiation for its reuse.
Consequences of Failure to Obtain Permission: Any material received without clear evidence of permission will be presumed to originate from the authors. Failure to obtain required permissions for copyrighted works can lead to significant delays in publication or the removal of the content from the published work.
Digital Archiving & Preservation
To ensure long-term preservation and permanent access to scholarly content, all published articles in this journal are digitally archived in the institutional archive of University of Tehran and National Library of Iran. This commitment to digital curation guarantees that the journal’s research legacy is protected against technological obsolescence, providing researchers and libraries with uninterrupted access to the final version of record for years to come.
Authors are encouraged to share and promote their published work to maximize its visibility and impact within the scholarly community. Sharing policies vary depending on the version of the manuscript being distributed.
Since Ebn al-Muqaffaʿ in Narrative and Poetry uses the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en), authors have expansive rights to share their content publicly.
Preprints: Authors may share their preprints anywhere at any time. Sharing a preprint on a public server, such as an institutional repository or preprint server (e.g. ArXiv), will not be counted as prior publication. If the paper is subsequently accepted and published in Ebn al-Muqaffaʿ in Narrative and Poetry , authors should link the preprint version to the final Published Journal Article using its Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The preprint server should clearly identify the work as non-peer reviewed.
Accepted Manuscript (AM) / Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM): Although Ebn al-Muqaffaʿ in Narrative and Poetry is Open Access, generally, policies allow authors to share their Accepted Manuscript. Given the journal’s CC BY-NC 4.0 license, authors are permitted to share the AM publicly, provided they adhere to the Creative Commons license and link to the final published version via the DOI.
Published Journal Article (PJA): Because Ebn al-Muqaffaʿ in Narrative and Poetry articles are published Open Access (freely available immediately upon publication), they can be shared publicly according to the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0. The final published version is openly available on the journal’s website, and authors can share it using the article’s DOI link.
Sharing research data that underlies the article, often through repositories, is also strongly encouraged to increase transparency and reproducibility.